Of course Japanese troops can defend islands...some chaps stayed in Guam defending it for over thirty years!

9:58 pm September 25, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

Why the original Nazi country need to have a troops?

10:17 pm September 25, 2012

Would like to see these troops in action wrote:

I'm waiting for the Chinese to actually send their military instead of hiding behind fishermen.
What a bunch of cowards.

1:14 am September 26, 2012

The world never let China occupy and owner of Pacific ocean wrote:

By 1 child policy in China, each PLA soldier is just only one child of his family and his commander are coward for example: Tiananmen Square massacre of student in 1989, the leaders of China should resign or hara-kiri but they dare NOT, what ashamed.
Japan is not easy for bullied such Vietnam or Philippines, because Japanese army have great experience of naval war, high tech weapon, plus samurai spiritual. Remember, Japan had the aircraft carrier in 1940, whereas China now is still learning how to build one.

Diao Yu is a group of disputed islands. Do not assume the Chinese are aggressors. Chinese sees Japanese being the aggressors in this case. It is a dispute. While you do not know the history and facts behind it, please refrain from taking side and please do not insult Chinese. Just because this WSJ, do not jump on the Japanese wagon automatically. The islands are also claimed by Taiwan. Japan also have dispute about an island with South Korea. I do not see people assuming Taiwan or South Korea to be the aggressors automatically. Please do not get in your China bashing mode without thinking. This is a dispute. Think from both sides' point of view. Chinese people from China react strongly, mainly because 20 millions Chinese were killed by the Japanese during the WWII. While the two things may not be related, people react in this way. Guys, don't be acquire herd mentality.

9:05 pm September 26, 2012

Re-educate the chinese wrote:

The chinese rats are everywhere spreading propaganda.
If the islands are part of china due to some history books fabricated
after the 70s then the whole china belongs to Mongolia.

Stop trolling here.

9:36 pm September 26, 2012

Don't bother wrote:

Education is too timely. Just eliminate them for good.

5:14 am September 27, 2012

Taiwanese wrote:

I am Chinese from Taiwan who donated $2 billion US dollar to you after the 311 Tsunami. You can return the money, if you hate the "Chinese rats" so much!

2:55 pm September 27, 2012

AWTHJTHJTHJKLF wrote:

“日米同盟と防衛"
尖閣諸島の“国有化"は日本の本土防衛。

中国には一歩も“譲歩"しては行けない。

日米に取って予想される将来的な“扮装地帯"尖閣諸島
扮装回避にはイージス艦隊を数週間配備させて置いた方が抑止力に為る。

4:16 pm September 27, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

japan should abide the rule of law.postdam declaration and cairo declaration.failure to do so just show japan has not give up his imperialist ambition and did not repent over its past aggression towards all nation in asean and china.shame on japan

2:10 am September 28, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

@ Taiwanese,

$2 billion is nothing to us Japanese. We don't need your dirty money!

9:36 am October 2, 2012

Ex_Pat wrote:

Clearly the winner will be non-Asians should this boil over to a war. I can just see the US and European countries dancing in the street as these two Asian countries who could unite to form one of the most powerful alliance in the world would end up destroying themselves and setting them back another 50 years.

Was this accidental or by design. If all things are correct to what I read in one article is that the islands were meant to be given back to China as rightful owner, but the American chose not to do so for strategic reasoning - Islands would be to close to Okinawa which they kept for a long time.

7:20 am December 21, 2013

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